MY AGE OF ANXIETY (Scott Stossel) - March 10/14

I really like the idea of this book, obviously, but it's pretty much unreadable. Stossel suffuses the book with page after page and chapter after chapter of almost shockingly dull stretches detailing statistics and the personal histories of figures I couldn't care less about. The book feels mostly like an academic text and though I attempted to read this stuff in the first half, I breezed through the last 100 pages just because I couldn't take it anymore. I really feel like Stossel let the reader down in a big way. I wanted to read about his day-to-day struggles and how he's overcome his anxiety (how did he meet and woo his wife, for example? How does that relationship work?) Instead he wastes the readers time with things that couldn't be less interesting. I'm not a professor or a psychology student; why does Stossel think I would care about all these facts and statistics? Ugh. * out of ****